Marat

Marat

@marat.uk

An indie in London, I build multiplayer games that are destined to die out

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Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

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it is unusual for me to ask for help on the internet. but this is very important. i'm going to need you to send me videos of very cool boss explosions so i can make one.

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Replying to @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social

(This isn’t to say using libraries or copy+pasting specific code makes you a lesser programmer, I just needed to pain a fuller picture of the exact kind of sicko I am)

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Replying to @v21.bsky.social

tried Dia a bit this afternoon, but fundamentally i don't like it because all the things it has that Arc doesn't are things i don't want. and all the things it does differently to Arc are just a little upsetting because they remind me that my nice browser got taken away.

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surprising no-one, i find myself thinking: ah, teaching is so cool, my students are so cool, it's so exciting to see the things they've been making

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one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social

"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas

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the "adapt or die" people failed to consider the secret third option of forming a neoluddite community where I'm selling my latest video game on usb sticks in a little lemonade stand

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Meditate to reduce your hitbox. Self, shrunk into a single pixel, shielded by the inert body. A mind where wounding voices cannot reach

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[learning computer science] so there are two widely used parsing strategies. one is very hard to wrap your head around and the other doesn't work

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# BANNED AND RESTRICTED ANNOUNCEMENT / 09/30/2026 One-card spread: The Ten of Swords is *banned* The Nine of cups is *banned* Another season of pro tarot league is almost upon us. While most formats are thriving, in the fast and degenerate world of one-card we're seeing concerning metagame data,

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Replying to @theryusui.bsky.social

two legs uv stone and broken things are all thats left uv king uv kings. “my name is Oz; look and despare!” but only sand is sitting ther

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new userstyle in progress! no promises itll be finished let alone released since that happens to be the fate for all my other themes

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finally, I have completed this tooling project and now I can use the tool to build a video game [thinks about the video game's design for ten seconds] unfortunately the spec for the tool has just grown another feature

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brought to by shipping myself another self-serving single page site to solve a small pain/problem

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if "vibe coding" wasnt taken by ai it would be a good name for the near-final stage of a project where you are locked the fuck in and the code is just flowing from your fingertips like a fucken wizzard. all of it complete dog shit

Now that I’m in no danger of going viral I can start posting my inner thoughts online

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Please don't use ChatGPT to summarize your problem when emailing support. Just send me what you type into ChatGPT, it'll save us both a lot of time.

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Replying to @benjapenguin.bsky.social

Gorg is regularly on the "shouldn't we fire this guy?" list from the higher-ups, but everyone threatens to quit if they fire Gorg because god help them if they have to do Gorg-work